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Bastrop Chamber of Commerce Launches 3rd Year of The Best Place for Working Parents® in Bastrop Coun

February 03, 2025

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 21, 2025
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Bastrop Chamber of Commerce Launches 3^rd Year of The Best Place for Working Parents® in Bastrop County

Bastrop, TX – January 21, 2025 – Bastrop County marks its 3^rd year as part of the National Best Place for Working Parents® network, offering real-time designations to businesses of all sizes whose family-friendly policies qualify through a first-of-its-kind, 3-minute online self-assessment. Best Place for Working Parents® Bastrop County offers local business leaders the opportunity to instantly determine whether their organization qualifies to earn a Best Place for Working Parents® designation, positioning them among the leading family-friendly businesses in the U.S.

The confidential online business self-assessment allows businesses of all sizes tout innovative practices that are helping today’s working parents provide for their families, and adapt and thrive at work during extraordinary times. The Best Place for Working Parents® assessment highlights only the top 10 research-backed policies proven to benefit working parents AND businesses’ bottom line.

Last year, Best Place for Working Parents® Bastrop County honored 26 business across the region with The Best Place for Working Parents® designation.

While family-friendly policies have a direct impact on working parents, local and national research proves that there is also a serious business case to being family-friendly:

83% of millennials would leave one job for another with stronger family-friendly supports.
Replacing an employee costs an employer six to nine months of that employee’s salary.
Over 60% of working parents said child care issues have caused them to miss work.
Employers lose $13 billion annually due to child care challenges faced by their workforce.¹

The Best Place for Working Parents® online self-assessment provides a real-time dashboard of how a business fares against other businesses of like size and industry across each of the top 10 family-friendly practices in their region. Each of the top 10 policies include research on their business ROI and case studies that tell the story of how local businesses’ practices have impacted their productivity, retention, job satisfaction and attraction. The 3-minute self-assessment, real-time dashboard results, and the Best Place for Working Parents® designation for qualifying businesses can be accessed at business.bestplace4workingparents.com.

ABOUT The Best Place for Working Parents®
The Best Place for Working Parents® is a growing national network of business leaders proving that family-friendly IS business-friendly. Originating in Fort Worth, Texas, The Best Place for Working Parents® seeks to support businesses with research-backed strategies that benefit working parents AND businesses’ bottom line. Learn more at www.bestplace4workingparents.com.

ABOUT The Bastrop Chamber of Commerce

The Bastrop Chamber of Commerce is Accredited with Four-Star Distinction by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Our mission is “To improve business prosperity and, thereby, the quality of life in Bastrop County, through leadership, advocacy, and collaboration.” Currently, the Chamber serves a membership of nearly 800 members throughout Bastrop County and Central Texas and is consistently ranked in the Top 10 Largest Chambers by the Austin Business Journal. To learn more and/or join the Bastrop Chamber of Commerce, please visit www.bastropchamber.com.

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1 Sources: Patricia S. Reed & Shirley M. Clark, (Win-Win Workplace Practices), Goldman Sachs, SHRM, “Getting Back to Work” report (May 2021), ReadyNation (March 2021)